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Moscow man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting girl
Last year, a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Steven A. Guzzi, and a new trial was scheduled for next week. Mr. Guzzi was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a girl when she was 11 and until she was 14.
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:13A
Oligarch's wife wins Court of Appeal battle over divorce assets
Top family law judge Sir Nicholas Wall said: "[Mr Agrest] has done his best to divest himself of any assets which could be the subject of a claim." Ms Kremen will now continue her legal action to seek half of her ex-husband's fortune, but she said she
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:11A
Haynes decides to keep eminent domain case
Binkley, the presiding judge for Davidson County state trial courts, changed the policy earlier this year, and now condemnation cases are evenly distributed among the Circuit Court judges. Eminent domain cases involve the government's condemning,
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:10A
COMMENT: Frittering money away
THERE is a saying: Justice should not only be done, but seen to be done. Forgive us if we borrow the sentiment but similarly: Council cuts must not only be done but be seen to be done. Yet today we reveal Oxfordshire County Council staff stayed
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:09A
Judge Haynes changes mind, stays on eminent domain case
Binkley, the presiding judge for Davidson County state trial courts, changed the policy earlier this year, and now condemnation cases are evenly distributed among the Circuit Court judges. Eminent domain cases involve the government's condemning,
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:09A
BIR RUNS AFTER GARCIA, LIGOT
Jacinto Ligot and wife Erlinda were accused before the Department of Justice of willfully evading payment of tax and failing to file their income tax returns. It was the third tax-related case filed against the Garcias who allegedly failed to file the
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:09A
Fairfield man found guilty of rape
By Reporter Staff/ A Solano County Superior Court jury returned a guilty verdict Friday against a Fairfield man in the 1998 rape of a teenage girl in Allan Witt Park. The trial for defendant Michael Wayne Derrick, 32, began last Thursday and on Friday
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:08A
NFLPA union decertifies
The union decertified, and players including Tom Brady and Peyton Manning sued the league, putting the country's most popular sport on a path to its first work stoppage since 1987. Despite 16 days of negotiations with a federal mediator -- and previous
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:08A
'The path': Some Americans are trying to ban Muslim law without knowing what
Concern over Shariah laws was first raised in 2005 when authorities in Ontario, Canada considered adding Islamic law to a legal arbitration process that already included Catholic and Jewish laws used to settle family law matters like divorce.
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:08A
Family wants justice for punch death dad
The devastated family of 55-year-old Kamlesh Ruparelia say there is no justice - after the man charged with his killing had the case against him dropped. “Kamlesh was a gentle and shy man,” his heartbroken sister Viduet told The Star.
Updated: 03/12/2011 05:06A
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